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Volume IX, No. 108
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Solon seeks House probe into PMA cadet’s death By FILANE MIKEE CERVANTES PNA
A party-list lawmaker at the House of Representatives on Monday filed a resolution seeking a congressional inquiry into the death of Philippine Military Academy (PMA) Cadet Fourth Class Darwin Dormitorio allegedly due to hazing.
Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Alfredo Garbin Jr. filed House Resolution 368, which urges the appropriate House committee to also look into the established protocols of the PMA involving the PMA Cadet Corps. “We have zero tolerance for hazing. The murderers See SOLON, page 11
Residents light a candle during a rally protesting the plan to sell the Xavier University campus at Corrales Avenue at the Magsaysay Park last Satruday. photo by gerry lee gorit
Kin of dead PMA cadet urges legislators to revisit anti-hazing lawby By GERRY LEE GORIT Correspondent
The late PMA cadet Darwin Dormitorio’s brother Dexter with the family’s pet dog take a look at the deceased’s casket inside Cosmopolitan Funeral Home in Cagayan de Oro City. photo by gerry lee gorit
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- Following the death by hazing of the late Philippine Military Academy (PMA) fourth class cadet Darwin
Dormitorio, his relatives are calling on legislators to review the country’s Anti-Hazing Law so what happened to him won’t be repeated. “It’s not good to know
that cadets who are willing to serve our country die during their training,” said Omaradji Pizarro, the mayor of Kalilangan town in Bukidnon who’s also married to one of Dormitorio’s
aunt. Speaking on behalf of the Dormitorio family, Pizarro said there is a need to review the Anti-Hazing Law, a statute aimed at preventing See KIN, page 11